Comments on: Annotated 50-21

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:32:06 +0000

Don Gobligno will make you an offer he expects you to haggle over.
That’s… certainly less intimidating than the other fellow.

Thanks for your reply, T! :)

By: Brasca1

Brasca1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:03:54 +0000

I see. I wasn’t entirely clear about Clair’s rules. In the past she and Holister expressed their moral issues with conjuring. Perhaps I mistakenly thought they had similar problems with portals unless done for a good cause. Your explanation makes sense since if Sky elves can’t practice their magic because of Clair’s edict it wouldn’t be long before they mutinied.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:51:42 +0000

I think both can help, but I think the most useful is strategy because otherwise you have no idea whom to charm, what your logistics should try to make happen, or how to use any of your other skills.
Conversely, with a good enough strategy and a little charisma, you can get to a place where others will solve your logistics problems for you.

Mind you, none of those things will get you have a happy life, just allow you to succeed in all kinds of other ways. Happiness is … one of those things you can’t find by trying too hard. So maybe *that* would be the ultimate school of realitymancy? The ability to find happiness, independent of your success in other areas. Maybe not the most “useful”, depending on your definition of the word, but probably the one most people are actually trying to emulate.

By: lp

lp — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:49:48 +0000

Mmm. Logistics. I’m never sure if logistics or charisma is the more useful school of realitymancy. They’re just so broken good compared to some of the others.

By: T

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:56:48 +0000

Clair absolutely will let street elves make portals…they are, in fact, making portals right here and right now. What she’s blocked is “unauthorized” portaling and conjuration, which means that any street elf portal activity has to be authorized from the top down. And the “top” is Clair at this point, so the Don’s goal is to get her to authorize the portal activity he wants. If he could do an end run around her to deal with Jemmington instead, he would of course do that.

The fugitive sky elves did bring some valuables with them (and the smarter ones, unlike Jemmington, held onto theirs). But even cutting transportation costs by a factor of ten, and transportation time to basically zero, would make the Don giddy with glee. Clair would have no moral issue with that as long as the street elves got some pay for their time and this orc issue got resolved first.